1. Personal Introduction

2. Course Learning Objectives

3. Course Expectations/Assignments

4. Course Policies

5. Registration/Questions

Political Scientist (obviously)

Research

• Political parties and ethnic/sectarian violence (India, Indonesia, Northern Ireland)
• Causes (and consequences) of changing public perception of lynching in the US
• War and changing racial boundaries in the US

Approach

• History
• Rigorous statistical analysis
• "Big data"

• Understand what makes science distinct
• Identify questions answerable by science
• Master concepts surrounding problems and solutions to descriptive and causal inference
• Analyze and evaluate validity of descriptive and causal claims about politics

• Memorize key concepts and tools used in political science
• Develop typologies to compare and contrast concepts/ideas

\(\bullet\) Online invitation in Week 3

\(\bullet\) 1 point for completion

\(\bullet\) Use answers to illustrate key course concepts

\(\bullet\) Apply key concepts to your (constrained) choice of current events

\(\bullet\) Available on Canvas on Mondays at 9AM

\(\bullet\) Exactly 1 week to complete/upload to Canvas

\(\bullet\) Will be run through Turnitin

\(\bullet\) February 13 in class

\(\bullet\) Covers materials from weeks 2 to 5

\(\bullet\) Review session AND lists of key terms/questions

\(\bullet\) Date TBD

\(\bullet\) Cumulative over entire course, but emphasizes weeks 6 to 14.

\(\bullet\) Review session and key terms/questions

\(\bullet\) TAs

\(\bullet\) Rubrics

\(\bullet\) Validation

\(\bullet\) No "Curve"

\(\bullet\) Attend lecture:

• slides not enough

\(\bullet\) Attend Tutorial

\(\bullet\) Read

\(\bullet\) Canvas

\(\bullet\) List of concepts

\(\bullet\) Slides

\(\bullet\) Speed

\(\bullet\) Discussion/Questions

\(\bullet\) Examples

\(\bullet\) Scheduling Conflict

• Need to know ASAP to get a concession

\(\bullet\) Arts Advising

• Penalties unless given offical concession
• Ask Arts Advising first. Can be granted ex-post, but do it ASAP

\(\bullet\) Lateness

• non-catastrophic deduction (0.5 points out of 10 per 24 hours)

\(\bullet\) To your TA

\(\bullet\) formal written letter

\(\bullet\) 48 hours waiting period

\(\bullet\) Grades can change \(\Updownarrow\)

\(\bullet\) No participation without attendance

\(\bullet\) Make up absences/holidays by attending another Tutorial

• notify both TAs

\(\bullet\) Excused absences require official concession

• Each unexcused absence induces \((1/n * 100\%)\) deduction from total tutorial score
• \(n\) is the number of unexcused tutorial dates

As of this morning:

237/250; 13 reserved spots, 5 on waitlist